Barkley L. Hendricks: Fashion Forward

Fashion is front and center in the portraiture of Barkley L. Hendricks, on display at Frick Madison through January 7, 2024. Listen to a reflection by Richard J. Powell, a scholar of the artist’s work and Duke University’s John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, on the importance of style and self-fashioning in Hendricks’s groundbreaking paintings. 

All artworks shown are © Barkley L. Hendricks; courtesy of the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Miss T is courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art